Hilary Duff Opens Up About Becoming a Mom at 24: 'It Was a Little Isolating in the Beginning'

Hilary Duff is opening up in regards to the challenges of motherhood.

Throughout an episode of The Motherly Podcast, Duff, 31, revealed changing into a mom at simply 24 years outdated was fairly “isolating.”

The Youthful star welcomed her first youngster — son Luca Cruz with ex-husband Mike Comrie in 2012.

“It was a little isolating in the beginning because I didn’t have any friends that had babies yet,” Duff stated.

“But I had been working for such a long time that it felt like a natural step for me and I always knew I wanted to be a mom and I always knew that was going to be my number one priority in life. So, I felt ready on some fronts and a little scared on others,” she shared.

“I only got scared one I was pregnant, you know, thinking like, ‘Oh this is actually really happening. What if this? What if that?” she added.

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Duff defined that when Luca, now 7, arrived, every part in her life modified.

“I did feel like after I had him, I lost a big chunk of my identity for maybe the first year and a half,” Duff stated, including that it was essentially a “negative thing.”

Nonetheless, she admitted “At times, I was sad about it, but you know it’s full on. I don’t remember setting him down for the first three months of life. I was obsessively goggling things and I just took it really seriously that I didn’t realize how all encompassing it would be.”

“I knew it was the most important, biggest job in the world but you know, it looks very different once you’re just in the household with the baby by yourself all the time,” she added.

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Nonetheless, Duff stated being a mom has been “shocking and it was also the happiest, most beautiful experiences, so those two things butting up against each other is quite a strange mix sometimes.”

“Once you do find yourself again, you have the biggest thing under your belt that nobody can take away from you and you’re so confident,” Duff stated of getting her id again.

“I did spin it as a positive thing because sitting in it when it was happening maybe I was a little sad about it and I didn’t feel like I had anyone to go through the experience with, but then I came out on the other side. I’m like, I’m a freaking super woman and I can do anything and I have confidence for days.”

Duff break up with Comrie, 38, in 2016. The actress has since welcomed one other youngster — daughter Banks with fiancé Matthew Koma — and naturally along with her second being pregnant she skilled change as soon as once more, however she’s laughing it off!

On Friday, Duff hilariously put out a lacking individuals advert for her pre-baby abs.

“Sitting here thinking…gotta keep working on this body that was Banks’ apartment. A while ago…,” she stated in one in every of her Instagram Tales. “Give me my abs back. Are they in there? Hellllllo come back.”

Duff additionally mirrored on how her postpartum wardrobe of selection — excessive waisted sweatpants and denims — was her nightmare outfit throughout her teenage Lizzy McGuire years, when low-waisted Juicy Couture sweatsuits and her beloved Frankie B denims had been the peak of vogue.

“I was thinking if I told my 14-year-old self that I would hang out in sweatpants that cover my belly button I think I would have vomited on the spot and laughed in your face,” she joked. “My Frankie B’s were lyfe (who’s with me?).”

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Excessive-wasted pants or not, Duff’s physique picture has come a good distance since her time on the long-lasting Disney Channel present. In these days, she would limit her meals to attain a glance that Duff now says was “too thin” and “unhappy.”

The actress stated that these ideas continued within the months after she gave delivery to Luca, however she’s since discovered to embrace her physique, perceived flaws and all.

“I realized that I am never going to be the same again, and that’s okay,” she stated in 2018. “I’ve learned to be proud of what my body does for me, and what it did while I was pregnant with my son. My body helped create a bond between us, and me being there for him in those first months of his life ultimately was far more important than me trying to get in shape right away. And that mental shift helped all the other stuff eventually fall into place.”